Overview

• California will deploy California Highway Patrol crime‑suppression teams across Los Angeles, San Diego, the Central Valley, the Inland Empire, Sacramento and the Bay Area to support local police and target high‑crime areas, repeat offenders, and illicit weapons and narcotics.
• Each operation will typically field 12 to 15 officers and rely on existing resources, with statewide activation expected within about two weeks, according to CHP officials.
• Newsom’s office pointed to prior CHP deployments in Bakersfield, San Bernardino and Oakland that produced more than 9,000 arrests, nearly 5,800 recovered stolen vehicles and over 400 firearms seized.
• At his announcement, Newsom criticized what he called the president’s militarization of cities and urged sending troops to Louisiana and Mississippi if the goal is reducing violence.
• The White House mocked the plan as copying the president’s agenda, while some Republicans such as Sen. John Kennedy praised the move; the rollout comes as Newsom pursues a lawsuit over earlier National Guard deployments in Los Angeles.